The "Shueisha" Thread

Coby

I can't think of a single chapter of Naruto in the past dozen weeks that deserves a high ranking spot.

Wait, no make that a hundred weeks.

Madara has people hyped shrug

auem

@valiantt:

The Armadillo Penis one.

no more alone in silliness….Oda matched it with Baby Pink trying to chew a bra..:whistling:

Aohige_AP

Just saw the photos of the Kuroko terrorist being taken by the police
Dude is smiling, laughing, cheery as hell

CREEEEEEEEEPyy
I think we have a genuine lunatic.

Gatekeeper

@Aohige_AP:

Just saw the photos of the Kuroko terrorist being taken by the police
Dude is smiling, laughing, cheery as hell

CREEEEEEEEEPyy
I think we have a genuine lunatic.

How did they catch him anyway? Or did he let himself get caught?

valiantt

@Aohige_AP:

Just saw the photos of the Kuroko terrorist being taken by the police
Dude is smiling, laughing, cheery as hell

CREEEEEEEEEPyy
I think we have a genuine lunatic.

and you're not sharing or referring to a link? Bah!

PS: Did they ever figure out what that guy's relation was to the Kuroko's author?

Kondo

@valiantt:

and you're not sharing or referring to a link? Bah!

PS: Did they ever figure out what that guy's relation was to the Kuroko's author?

He had none. Was just jealous.

Aohige_AP

@valiantt:

and you're not sharing or referring to a link? Bah!

PS: Did they ever figure out what that guy's relation was to the Kuroko's author?

@Gatekeeper:

How did they catch him anyway? Or did he let himself get caught?

Creepy cheery smiles
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2013/12/17/20131217k0000e040157000c/003.html Still no info, although he claims to have met the author and knew him in college
As for why he was caught, some of the evidences were traced back to him and they found items in his house in relation as well.
He did try to hide or destroy his tracks, but I guess he underestimated modern day investigation advancements.

valiantt

That's the happiest looking criminal I have ever seen

x20a

@valiantt:

That's the happiest looking criminal I have ever seen

This is the happiest criminal you'll ever see:

Aohige_AP

If The Joker was real his name would be Charles Manson.

bepo

@Kondo:

It's because a great number of Jump readers are idiots. That's why they vote Hiatus x (Hiatus) into a hiatus each week.

i wanne "like" this comment

Dryish

@Aohige_AP:

Creepy cheery smiles
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2013/12/17/20131217k0000e040157000c/003.html

Holy cow, geez. If there is ever any question about the functionality of the prison system, this guy's face needs to be linked. That is genuinely disturbing as heck.

Luxor

If I didn't know the whole story, I would've thought some of those pics showed some happy politician surrounded by bodyguards/policemen. Damn he looks happy.

Kondo

The guy probably just loves to see justice dropped on the wicked.

Smiley

What kind of crap did he do?

Nobodyman

This post is deleted!

Luxor

He made tons of (iirc) bomb, death, poison threats, and actually went through with sending poisoned letters to tons of people. I don't remember who exactly, but it was like… in the hundreds?

x20a

Read World Trigger… it's actually pretty good. Much better than the generic crap it started out as.

MiyamotoMusashi

@x20a:

Read World Trigger… it's actually pretty good. Much better than the generic crap it started out as.

What is it now if the beginning was generic crap?

Cruithne

@MiyamotoMusashi:

What is it now if the beginning was generic crap?

Decent and non-generic crap?

It's been picking up steam and getting pretty interesting for the last few months.

MiyamotoMusashi

@Cruithne:

Decent and non-generic crap?

It's been picking up steam and getting pretty interesting for the last few months.

Asking because i can´t see that much of a difference to be honest

x20a

@MiyamotoMusashi:

What is it now if the beginning was generic crap?

Now it's Negima crap with its super half alien MC.

Maxy B

https://t.co/3MKVy0uVVc The whole shonen jump international competition finalists are out, and I guess like 5 of them are interesting! One of them is completely fucking atrocious! GUESS WHICH.

I'm pretty pleased with the artistic qualities of the entrants. The stories are rough as hell, but for most this is probably early work, so that's fiiiiine. Voted for El Viento Del Norte personally, it being pretty gorgeous, exciting and funny throughout.

What worked for you guys?

MiyamotoMusashi

Sweat Man was just outright bad
Golden Rabbit was pretty simple, managed to make a simple game of catch look interesting but all in all, generic
Boom, too silly and chaotic for my taste
Morning Star, was not bad, the idea of grave diggers waking up the dead is known but looked interesting enough, ending looked like a transition to a possible second chapter
The Team Before Daybreak, art was good and the concept was interesting.
The entry i voted for is El Viento Del Norte. Story is pretty common (traveller defeats the much hated big bad while making friends) but the execution was flawless and the art definitely not amateurish, i mean at all. The only one i could see myself reading more than a few chapters.

Kdom

@Maxy:

https://t.co/3MKVy0uVVc The whole shonen jump international competition finalists are out, and I guess like 5 of them are interesting! One of them is completely fucking atrocious! GUESS WHICH.

I'm sorry but I don't think you will find many people who like Sweat Man more than Morning Star

Maxy B

@Kdom:

I'm sorry but I don't think you will find many people who like Sweat Man more than Morning Star

Morning Star was the one I hated. More than anything I've read in recent history. And I'm not even a hateful guy, so that's rare

Aaronrules380

I couldn't really get into morning star because it was way too wordy. Seriously, this is a manga, you shouldn't need to cram so much into word bubbles every single fucking panel. It's goddamn painful

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El Viento Del Norte was easily the best of them in my opinion, now that I've read them all

Dryish

El Viento Del Norte reminds me of Trigun way too much. And Trigun is probably the worst manga I've ever read. I couldn't possibly vote for that despite it being probably the best one of the whole bunch.

Wish I could vote for Morning Star, but it's got an incredibly annoying main character and way too much dialogue. Boom's got my vote, I guess.

Ordinary

Personally, I liked Morning Star the best. But the influence seemed more western than manga, thus art style and dialogue. I didn't mind the wordiness, in fact, I didn't notice it. The only issue I noted was that the protagonist looked too damn androgynous. I think he's a guy.
The art was rough, but I liked the style. He seems to have potential, or talent, I'm not sure.
If only there were more chapters to continue the story, it would probably be great.
I was curious about everyone's favourite, El Viento De Norte, but it seemed pretty average. Mihawk cowboy (Edit:Sheriff) was cool though.
But hey, what do I know.

P.S. Sweat Man is the worst, with imho, Boom as second worst.

werewulfking

Quite difficult for me. None of the stories is horribly bad for me but none strikes me as particularly original or with a good twist to an often used tale.
I think the Golden Rabbit is too lighthearted and nothing there to make me want to read again.
Sweat Man is just too silly of a premise and yeah nothing great can come from it.
Morning Star is good and most likely the best premise but the characters don't stick and the art is the most confusing for me.
Boom is rather funny but a bit too fanservicy and for no real reason at that. But the Maincharacter and his friend are quite interesting.
The team before Daybreak is too bloody for me and even if it is interesting at a first glance it feels too much like Hellsing for me although that was even darker and bloodier but fit the vampire theme better here it just doesn't fit the characterdesigns.
El Viento del Norte has a too overused Premise and the always silly supereyepower coupled with an Katana against sword premise and a bit more cliches.
So Boom too I guess.

auem

can people outside NA subscribe to that edition..?
any other way i can read them..?

Ordinary

@auem:

can people outside NA subscribe to that edition..?
any other way i can read them..?

It's not an edition, check the post on the previous page. It's a website.

Kdom

As I said last week, I don't really like overcrowded background, so boom was a painfull read on that aspect. North Verde is to full of cliché to gain my vote and the bar girl is so annoying. Morning Start and Before Daybreak have more original concept but the first one is not a oneshot and that's my main issue with it, the end of the second one is a bit to rushed and the purpose of the vampires is not very clear. Sweat man try to reuse the cliché of shounen with weird super power but fails by being serious so it makes it really dumb instead.

Luxor

I liked Boom, reminded me of Imaishi/Gurren Lagann's style. It has probably the freshest art of the bunch, and the backgrounds were pretty nicely filled. It's not as detailed as something like One Piece, but it's amazing coming from a non-professional.

El Viento isn't my thing, I've seen too many westerns and western mashups to see anything new in this. It's got consistent art and nice angle shots, but something about the art puts me off. Maybe the faces are too small for the head?

auem

@Ordinary:

It's not an edition, check the post on the previous page. It's a website.

ah! thanks..i thought it was in the line with jump alpha…

Ike79

Actually, I liked all of them. Maybe the bunny one not so much but all are interesting reads.
Best one would be Morning Star, in my opinion. I liked the action a lot and it didn't have unnecesary fanservice like others did.

Piitan

Oh, I liked that Boom!

Silverblade

I'd say I expected a bit more from an international contest. No outstanding comics this time, but I suppose it could have been much worse.

BOOM was the best out of them all. A fun comic all around unified by a single theme. Compelling quirky characters, dynamic and detailed art, actually funny jokes, ll of this is pretty much what I ask from my shonen comics. Also it kind of reminded me of some of Hiroy's work. Easily the best out the six. The only fault of it is female portrayal, thing was quite problematic.
Morning Star is just a really well done dungeon raid. Two fine characters going on an adventure doing what they are best at and talking all the way through out. The amount of exposition was a bit too much, and the set up for the continuation weren't really needed though.
The Team Before Daybreak went a by really fast so it wasn'tthat easy to buy the change of the main character. But this take on a vampire story was better than most of them, and the setting worked well as a background for thsi kind of story.
Golden Rabbit had weak art, but it's simplicity and lightheartedness were quite charming despite that.
El Viento Del Norte was almost offensively bad. Cliche setting, forgettable characters, terrible main girl straight out from fanfiction, out of place yuri jokes… I mean, did the author have some quota of awful to fill with this? Only the good but generic art lets me rate it better than the Sweatman.
Sweatman is just bad.

So I went and voted for BOOM, but I am fine if any of the first four win this.

@Maxy:

Morning Star was the one I hated. More than anything I've read in recent history. And I'm not even a hateful guy, so that's rare

I think this the first time I remember seeing you be this negative. What happened, man?

DemonX

Came here to see if you guys already got wind of the contest. Good.

So you guys think Sweat Man was bad? Well….yeah.

Anyway, BOOM was my favorite, then Morning Star and Viento del Norte.

sniperking323

Hoping either Viento del Norte, Boom! or The Team Before Daybreak wins. Really loved all three

Aohige_AP

I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of these, I remember the "manga wannabes" decade ago to look pretty awful.
The Chinese have some excellent artists in the recent years, so I wasn't too surprised at the quality coming from them, but others, such as Spain came as a pleasant surprise.

That being said, unfortunately paneling and script pace were still very much amateur at best, I can't really put a stamp of approval at professional level.
Personally I liked Daybreak the most, but looks like I'm in the minority there. A little refinement and I could easily imagine this a one-shot in Afternoon.

Luxor

@Aohige_AP:

I can't really put a stamp of approval at professional level.

Wow you must be a professional if you have a professional stamp.

Maxy B

@Silverblade:

I think this the first time I remember seeing you be this negative. What happened, man?

It's just…. man. For one it's a one-shot in a shonen competition with copious swearing in (save one instance where, bewilderingly, it's censored), which is just a big no-no for me, representing that loathsome shite scanlators sneak into their releases. The art itself isn't bad, but resembles the lesser releases Tokyopop flooded the market in when they were after cheap licenses. It works, but it's by no means good. The writing itself is harder to criticise, seeing as the author clearly isn't entirely fluent in the language he's using, but by and large it didn't work for me on a personal level, which I think was like the last straw that made me go from not thinking it was very good to just straight out hating it.

It's stupid for me to care so much, but when the other 5 were so worthwhile it just bums me out to have sunk time into reading Morning Star. All that said, the author clearly has huge potential under all the junk.

Ordinary

@Maxy:

It's just…. man. For one it's a one-shot in a shonen competition with copious swearing in (save one instance where, bewilderingly, it's censored), which is just a big no-no for me,representing that loathsome shite scanlators sneak into their releases.

Complaining about swearing and then swearing? I sense irony lol.

The art itself isn't bad, but resembles the lesser releases Tokyopop flooded the market in when they were after cheap licenses. It works, but it's by no means good. The writing itself is harder to criticise, seeing as the author clearly isn't entirely fluent in the language he's using, but by and large it didn't work for me on a personal level, which I think was like the last straw that made me go from not thinking it was very good to just straight out hating it.
It's stupid for me to care so much, but when the other 5 were so worthwhile it just bums me out to have sunk time into reading Morning Star. All that said, the author clearly has huge potential under all the junk.

Your reading experience seems to be plagued by memories of other bad manga. The art was quite rough, but like you yourself said, there is potential. For me, more potential than everyone else. I didn't know they submitted it in english, I thought it was translated. If you hate it on a personal level, then it's really just your opinion. Sorry for my two cents.
You really liked Sweat Man more than Morning Star?

retvets

I think Boom in a good editor's hand can really go places. It reminds me of the Dominion by Shirow, and some of the Patlabor series.

Sweatman is just silly with poor character building.
Katana cowgirl has the most compact art and story and I think that it is the best entry but Boom may work better
Morning Star reads too much like Sinbad . The art is pretty good esp the backgrounds.
Golden Rabbit is light hearted, ok for a short story
Team before daybreak, I dont get to feel the character. Good idea though, reminds me a lot of a recurring character in the Sandman series. The immortals and their loneliness being the theme.

I voted for boom for some originality, fun, and potential

auem

how many of you sent your works.?..i remember few members saying that they will enter in the competition…

Kondo

@auem:

how many of you sent your works.?..i remember few members saying that they will enter in the competition…

All of the one's complaining about how bad the finalists were.

….

I didn't like any of them.

Ordinary

Now that I think more about it, samurai cowgirl makes even less sense. The sword is just there to remind us it's supposed to be a manga. Even with the whole "eagle eye" thing, it still doesn't add up. Having good eyesight doesn't equate to superhuman reflexes. And good eyesight would lean even more towards guns.

Oh and her name is "Elizabeth Kitakaze Eastwood"

All Fiction

Is this the first year APforums isn't having a Jump Festa thread?

auem

Jump Festa hardly churns out important manga infos….few people hype it just because they attend and watch Oda and VAs are interacting...